#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Cause Selection
Your choice of career is probably the altruistically speaking the biggest decision you ever make it's absolutely enormous yeah people spend very little of their time really thinking through that question. We genuinely don't pay this nearly enough attention and certainly when it comes to doing good you have an enormous opportunity to have a huge impact through your career. effective altruism has chosen the focus areas it has which includes pandemic preparedness artificial intelligence climate change poverty farm animal welfare and potentially some others as well like improving institutional decision making or some areas in scientific research.
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